It’s Rabbit Season

The Easter bunny has come early this year, making a cameo appearance in Markus Lupfer’s SS17 collection. The collection was filled with prints galore, from vivid navy and red stripes to a hopping bunny print. The unique print featured on many outfits from pajama style tops to skirts. Sticking with the light, breezy feel of the collection, the colour palette ranged from eggshell pastels to a light use of navy and black.

Flower Power

Florals in spring? Obviously! Markus’ pieces consisted of glorious floral prints bursting with colours and making us feel like a garden pixie – but with an attitude. He strategically placed the print on black pieces for a striking contrast, but kept it summery and seductive with sheer fabrics. Another big theme of the collection was the use of bold belts. Many of the pieces were tied (literally) together with chained belts, with one belt being made into a navy faux peplum for that extra wow factor.

Oh, I Just Threw This On

“I didn’t even plan this outfit” is what you’re going to be saying while slipping on one of these lovely garms. Markus kept it super easy and comfortable this season with loose fitting shapes, perfectly achieving that effortlessly stylish look. Maxi dresses were loose, but kept feminine with frill details and sultry slits. Pleats were seen on many of the pieces, making an appearance on dresses and the chicest length maxi skirts. Loose fit coats were styled off one shoulder for that super blasé, fashionable look. The softness of the collection was contrasted by tough-girl styling; mesh socks, chokers and rainbow hued, apple shaped sunglasses made these models into that cool, stylish girl that we all strive to be.

Words: Mariah Rosslee

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Rebecca Zephyr Thomas and Princess Julia go way back. Creating a book inspired by Princess herself entitled What Would Julia Do? last year, you could say that Rebecca is our resident Princess Julia expert. So, ahead of Princess Julia’s upcoming shows at The Glory, the only logical thing for Wonderland to do was ask Rebecca to chat to our favourite princess ahead of her theatrical memoir about London’s counter-culture. The performance ‘An Audience With Princess Julia’ is a spoken word piece taken from her memoirs and supported by short films by the similarly long-standing member of the club scene – from Blitz- kids to now – Jeffrey Hinton. Princess Julia has enlisted the inimitable drag personality Jacqui Potato to create a performance inspired by her life with special guests, fashion by the likes of Stephen Jones and Ryan Lo and it’s set to be one night you will never forget.

With Princess Julia known for her presence on the London nightlife scene (she’s DJ-ed and danced her way through all the best nights the city has to offer since the eighties) and her penchant for always doing things a bit differently, Rebecca took the 243 bus with Julia around East London with Barney the party dog to pick up a hat from her favourite milliner, Stephen Jones. As the duo passed all of Princess Julia’s fave haunts, they chatted fashion, nightlife and of course, Princess’ upcoming show. With it’s first instalment this evening, head to The Glory tonight, with Princess Julia’s motto in mind, ‘If in doubt, go out!’

Rebecca: Would you mind telling me what inspired you to do the show at the Glory? What gave you that idea?

Princess Julia: My show is going to be about counter culture but put forward in a theatrical and entertaining way, rather than just me getting on a panel or just sitting on a stage reading monologues. I decided to do it because one the favorite questions that people ask me is how does it compare: now and then.

Fashion, art, music…

Exactly. How do things compare on the creative scene… I wanted to put forward an idea of how everything is inter-connected and there is a thread of creativity running through everything. There can be a core energy of expressing yourself, whether it’s through how you look or what you do, it’s about energy. Especially in London I find, the city is just as strong and exciting now. I wanted to put on a show that made that very apparent.

I’m collaborating with a few different people on this, my director is Jonny Woo, set design by Gary Card, Jeffery Hinton doing music and visuals, Jackie Potato aka Julian J Smith doing an interpretative performance and my wardrobe is by Ed Marler and Ryan Lo. So, there’s lots going on and it’s basically the Julia show. I’ll have a little Q and A, a little chitchat with a celebrity guest. Hahah all my friends are celebrities really in my mind, so I have Stephen Jones, Ian R Webb and Judy Blame. Three shows and a different person every week.

So Princess Julia with her stately homos?

Well I hope it appeals to quite a wide demographic of different people, but yes, it will be camp. I’m hoping that the audience will be people from the era, that want to re cant our journey together via me… and then people that are fascinated by it, and really young people who are just starting out and don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. I’m going to be quite explanatory. I don’t want to just reel things off. If you don’t get anything out of it, it will still be entertaining. I’m going to dot it up with my personal words of wisdom. It’s not going to just be a ramble, I want to involve the audience and have a positive air about things. I think that’s how we learn in life, I know it’s a bit of cliché, but sometimes making mistakes isn’t bad, it’s good.

I wanted to ask you a little bit about your wardrobe for the show. You have a very Julia mix of established, very fabulous Stephen Jones and you have really young, new designers.

I’ve got Stephen Jones as a guest, I will wear one (of the hats). I will won’t I? It would be rude not to. Sometimes I’m out somewhere and I’ve got somebody else’s hat on and I bump into Stephen Jones.

(Rebecca wags her finger jokingly)

He doesn’t actually wag a finger at me, he gives me that look like owww, it’s really, really funny. I don’t like to trouble people, because I know he’s a busy man. I had this moment in the early eighties when I was kind of a model of sorts. I did get modelling jobs, and I went to Tokyo for a while to be a model, but I’m really too short to be a model… so I never really did catwalk. I did photographic modelling, and when Stephen left college and set up his own millinery salon, straight away he was very focused and industrious, and we had little soirees and I was one of the house models. The salon models and I used to love it, you know. I should only really wear Stephen Jones. I hate to say that I share the love and wear a few different people. I really feel that Stephen Jones made millinery a real thing, he studied to be a fashion designer and he went into the millinery thing and before him nobody was really doing it in the way that he was and he really did inspire people to revisit millinery but also go forward with it. He’s such a nice man, I adore him.

How did you pick the two other designers, Ryan Lo and Ed Marler?

I like to keep a key eye on new designers and both of those designers actually came out of Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East and that’s when I became more aware of them. I’m quite interested in the way she creates a platform for new designers, to sort of have a real fashion experience, because it’s a really tough industry to break into when you leave fashion college. To get a foot in the door you have to be quite special…. and I always love her choices, they’ve been choices in the past and now they’ve flown the nest. I like both those designers, they’re both really young. I like them for different reasons.

You’re a real pillar of the community Julia, how is having the Glory right on your door step?

I know, lucky me, lucky me. I know I have the tag of being out every night for thirty years, but actually I haven’t. You can thank Tim Blanks for that. It’s a slight exaggeration. But I am active, socially, on the different scenes,

And you wear heels. Always in heels.

That comes from when I started experiementing with my image, creating my own personal style, I always thought I was a bit short. One of my most pivotal looks was the old behive, so I thought high hair and heels. I always wanted heels anyway, I remember begging my mother for a pair when I was eight. Can I have some stillettos then mother? It’s sort of ingrained in me. I was told once that I should wear resting shoes! Resting shoes!

What are resting shoes?

Flats! I had about two months of experimenting with flats and I hated it, I used to go out in flats but take a pair of high heels with me. I think it’s important to present yourself even if you’re having an off day, it can just really perk you up even if you’re not really going anywhere. Put the make up on, that’s what I say. Because you just don’t know what’s going to happen. You have to be prepared for anything to happen. You just need to be looking your best. Someone might come round who you haven’t seen for years. You might meet the love of your life walking down the street. You know, feel comfortable, I’m not saying everyone should wear make up… In fact I’m really jealous of people who don’t have to wear it, I’ve always been a fan of the feral looking woman, what’s her name? Patti, Patti Smith. LOVE. I’d like to be like that. And inside of me there is a feral woman.

Itching to get out…

She’s in there! It’s what you feel comfortable at the end of the day, if you feel comfortable in a casual look, earth shoes or what ever, I’m not saying that’s wrong, I’m saying that’s a look. It’s all drag to me. It’s a strong look and you can work it and be empowered, but for me personally I’d just feel like an old rat bag. I veer off towards a little bit more of a done up look. But all looks count. And everything you wear is drag. To my mind. The act of putting on clothes is dragging up. Even if it’s casual drag. I had this conversation with Jonny (Woo) even if you’re not really doing anything, your day look is sort of the same as your evening look. Where as for me, for him, getting dressed up if part of his performance. So maybe in a way my outlook is that I’m always performing. The street is my catwalk. It’s sort of a bit of a Joan Collins philosophy. I don’t know where I get it from, probably my grandmother. I just think if you take a few minutes to consider how you’re presenting yourself it makes such a difference. You’ve learnt that from me, haven’t you Rebecca?

Well, I don’t always put it into practice! One of your famous lines is… “If In Doubt Go Out!”

Ohh! I forgot about that! I could do a meme of that. Well, Jeffrey (Hinton) said that to me once. I was feeling rather down and miserable.

So this is borrowed from Jeffrey Hinton?

Yeah, I nick things and then I own them. There’s nothing wrong with that! So I was a bit down about something, all oh my life is so vacuous and hollow, urghhhh what a drudge. We all have those moments, you know. What would life be without them. And I shared a flat with Jeffery for years, in Camden… And I was kind of like umming and ahhing and he was like ‘if in doubt, go out’. I was like ‘You’re right. I’m going’. If I’m umming and arhhing, I pull myself together and those words come back to me.

Haunted by Jeffrey Hinton. If you don’t go out what do you like to do…?

I don’t go out that much really! I might be a sort of workaholic, I catch up with all the bits that I’ve meant to have done, a bit of writing or something, watching Coronation street. I like that sort of mundanity of life, you know, cleaning out the cat litter tray… That’s not one of my favourite jobs.

Hahah keeps you humble.

Oh I like doing water colours and painting, I really enjoy that, that’s a hobby, but it’s a hobby that’s lead on to other things, I did some illustrations for Peter Jensen and for Martel.

And you have your own show?

Yes! I’ve never had my own show before… I’ve been in group shows.

We have to get off the bus!

No next stop, round the corner. No we do, oh come on. Ohh look at all that fur!

WORDS: Rebecca Zephyr Thomas

MAKE UP: Andrew Gallimore for NARS

MILLINERY: Stephen Jones

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Eliza wears Black cotton shirt and Mustard and black wool dress with crystal brooch by PRADA.

Can you tell us about how you got scouted?

I was scouted in Charing Cross, very early in the morning actually – it was a bit of a surprise. I was just on my way to work! I was very surprised as I hadn’t really considered it but I thought I’d give it a go and I’m so glad I did. It’s so tiring but I love it!

What have you been up to since you got scouted?

I did fashion week last February and fashion week a couple of weeks ago and it was so good! I did Ryan Lo… I did Marques Almeida…I did Vinti Andrews, Caitlin Price and JS Lee so I was really happy. Ryan Lo was probably my favourite, the clothes were so cool!

He’s great. What’s your favourite thing that you’ve worn on a shoot or in a show that you wish was yours?

The coolest thing…I don’t know if I would wear it normally but what I wore for Ryan Lo was so cool it was like pink and fluffy, I felt like a princess.

Pink and fluffy vibes to match your phone case – amazing. Who would be your dream photographer to work with? Or your dream designer to work for?

I had a casting for Burberry which was a bit of a tease because I didn’t get it but that would be pretty awesome. The show is amazing… the show is so beautiful, it’s so cool.

What do you do when you’re not modelling?

I’m currently at uni studying sociology at York. I have no idea what I’d be doing really if I wasn’t a model though… I’d be a bit clueless! The city of York is amazing though – it’s got the best cake shops I’ve ever seen in my whole life which is really nice. They actually have a delivery called cakeaway, they deliver cake to your door it’s amazing.

What’s been your favourite moment as a model so far?

Favourite moment…probably my first ever show, it was so exciting, I had never done it before and had no idea what to expect. It was so manic and there was just so much going on. That was pretty cool. There’s so much adrenaline! I love it, it’s so fun.

Which city would you love to live in?

Probably New York, I absolutely love New York it’s such a cool place it’s so buzzing and everyone is so friendly there – it’s got a really good energy.

New York sounds pretty amazing.

We could all go together.

Should’ve done the shoot in New York, sorry. Do you prefer shoots or shows?

I would probably say shows but I do also really enjoy shoots. There’s more adrenaline in shows because you’re hyped up and everything. Yeah probably more shows but both are good.

Who’s your favourite female model and who’s your favourite male model?

Favourite female model – probably Jourdan Dunn she’s so beautiful and she also has a child and she looks amazing. She’s killing it isn’t she? She’s pretty good at what she does. Male model – I don’t know can you say Justin Bieber? I love Justin Bieber it’s kind of weird how much… I went to his concert.

Is he good live?

I thought so!

What do you do with your time off?

Probably just watch TV in my bed…No that’s boring, I do ballet which I enjoy. I’ve done it since I was little – it’s fun! Good for the core…

What song always gets you dancing and what music do you like?

Anything by Beyonce… And Drake, I love Drake.

Photography: Rowan Southern

Fashion: Toni Blaze

Grooming: Abra Kennedy using Chanel

Model: Eliza Franks @ Milk Management London

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It took film director Anton Corbijn months to persuade Dane DeHaan to play James Dean in big-screen biopic, Life. It wasn’t that DeHaan lacked enthusiasm for the part, it’s that he was dreading stepping into the skin of his idol. “I’m the one that goes around saying I want to challenge myself all the time,” he tells me from the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his wife and fellow actor, Anna Wood. “Then when the opportunity really came along, I got scared. You know… this really is the biggest challenge of my career.”

In 2015, Hollywood is crying out for more talents like DeHaan. Here’s a guy who’s as comfortable playing a ballistic, gas can-wielding heavy metal roadie (2013’s anarchic thriller, Metallica: Through The Never) as he is a heartbroken 17th century painter (forthcoming drama, Tulip Fever). He changes his colours quicker than a Rubik’s Cube, knows when to say no to work and, as I learned, rarely lets his guard down in interviews. Since his big screen debut in 2010’s Amigo he’s averaged five film roles a year, each as diverse as they are demanding. Though he often plays youths dealt a tough hand in life – most notably in cult, halogen-lit Ryan Gosling vehicle Place Beyond the Pines – typecast DeHaan is defiantly not.

“You have to be a strong individual,” he says with the deadpan inflection of a Daria character that never was. “I know what I want, I don’t want to just shine bright and then burn out, I want to have a slow-burner of a career. For me, the challenge is just keeping it about the work.”

One thing’s for absolute sure: when DeHaan is certain of a part, he’ll wrap his life around it like a boa constrictor. To land his stint as the Green Goblin/Harry Osborn in last year’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, he asked co-star Andrew Garfield to recommend him to director Marc Webb. He pursued the role for months and when he got it, DeHaan based his character on the typical, moneyed pseudo-intellectual he’s used to meeting in New York. “It’s undeniable the positive effects doing a movie like that has had on my career,” he reflects. “If you do big movies, if you put yourself in the public consciousness in that way, it allows you to do whatever movie you wanna do next.”             t

Hop-scotching between projects humble and humungous, DeHaan’s keeping his options wide open. “It comes down to this balance – I don’t always want to be doing big movies, or small ones. I think if I just did one of either of those it would really start to wear away at me physically, mentally. With Spider-Man, I had never been in a movie that big, but I loved the people involved. I wanted it selfishly.”          y

When, after five failed attempts, photographer-turned-director Corbijn finally twisted DeHaan’s arm for Life, the actor was put on a demanding diet plan. Gaining a skin-splitting 25 pounds in three months and crunching his vocals flat to mimic Dean’s infantile rasp, DeHaan’s performance is studied and compelling. He’s hardly a plaster-cast lookalike, but he never tried to be. “It’s not like I didn’t spend a tonne of time on his voice, but the most important work, I think, is trying to figure out who he was, what drove him forward,” he muses, counting out the biographies he read in prep.

The film, out in the UK this autumn, follows the slow-burn relationship between Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock (played by an uncharacteristically sexless Robert Pattinson) and Dean. Following him for the photo-series everywhere from New York’s seediest nightspots to his family home in Indiana, Stock captures the 24-year-old in his playful prime: passed out drunk on a table beside a buxom blonde (To Rome With Love‘s Alessandra Mastronardi), acting the jester on a farm, and sharing a close moment with his son.

DeHaan’s favourite of Webb’s hallowed photoseries – which shows Dean sitting alone on the stage of a high school auditorium – didn’t make the film. “I was in college [when I saw it], and that was the first time he became human to me,” he laughs.

The scene where Dean follows Stock into a drizzly Times Square to pose for one of his most iconic portraits, is as powerful as acting gets. As DeHaan cracks Dean’s wily, ear-to-ear smirk for Pattinson’s Leica SM, ex-Final Fantasy songwriter Owen Pallett’s soundtrack simmers underneath. Years before Life, DeHaan had spoken at length about “misunderstood” Dean. The film portrays him as a mischievous, limelight-averse visionary – a million miles away from the coy country boy he’s thought of as being. “Everyone knows that photograph of James Dean in Times Square. It’s such a strong image, but nobody is just one thing. Nobody is just a rebel, nobody is just cool. He was so much more than that. Hopefully, this film shows that.”

Whipped up for an Annie Leibovitz-shot Prada menswear campaign last year, he must know what it feels like to be labelled a young, mysterious icon. “I think it does a really good job of showing how a normal person can be turned into an icon,” he ponders. “How photographs can change the way the world views a person. You can’t just think of two of my movies and categorise my entire person. Luckily, I’m not like the people I play in my movies. I feel like I’m a lot more of a sane, normal person than a lot of the times I’m portrayed on screen.”

Off-set, DeHaan often unconsciously stays in character. Wood had to repeatedly remind him to snap out of his Dean persona, he recalls. “It is full-on immersion. I feel like my characters leak into my personal life because they’re all consuming.” Indeed, there is something uncanny about Dane’s casting, especially in the scene where he demands to be shown “only good movies”, to accept honest, upstanding projects alone.

In 2017, he and Cara Delevingne star in Valerian, Luc Besson’s first film in three years. Based on the graphic novel, DeHaan plays a time-travelling 28th century protagonist in one of the most anticipated sci-fis of the decade. He’s not slowing down, then. In fact, you get a sense that now, more than ever, Dane DeHaan is as high as he’ll get. But what of the bigger roles he’s turned down? “I just don’t see any real reason to answer that question… it’s too dangerous,” he rebuts. “It’s not what I don’t do, it’s about what I do do.”

Photography: Matt Lambert

Fashion: Andrew Davis

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We all fell for Robert Sheehan and his Irish charm when he graced our screens as Nathan Young in Misfits – he’s had a busy few years since and the rising actor continues to make an impression with his latest role in The Messenger. The film is directed by David Blair (Best Laid Plans) and sees Sheehan playing protagonist Jack, alongside Joely Richardson, Lily Cole, Jack Fox, David O’Hara and Tamzin Merchant. His character is reluctantly tormented by the dead and has been in and out of psychiatric units all of his life – he is considered an outsider by others and branded delusional. The Messenger follows him on a haunting journey of coming to terms with his turbulent past and playing the intermediary between the dead and their beloved.

Below Sheehan talks with us about working with ‘Darth Blaider’, starring in a Shakespearean epic and very exciting upcoming projects involving Dustin Lance Black and our covergirl Hailee Steinfeld. Also, if like us you want to see him in action you can catch him at the Rose Theatre Kingston in The War of the Roses until October 31.

So I watched The Messenger this morning…

This morning? You might be the first person ever to watch it in the morning!

I know it made me think a lot for the morning.

It was like a strong cup of coffee was it?

Yeah exactly! What attracted you to this film?

Well I guess the same as what you’ve concluded there to some extent, I found it a quite thought-provoking script. I found that Jack the character was written very cleverly – it’s interesting actually because the writer Andrew Kirk – I eventually got around to asking where the idea came from and he said his mother, or possibly his partner’s mother, I can’t remember, had dementia and she started talking to relatives that had passed away as though they were in the room. Everybody was completely mystified at first but it happened consistently and weirdly enough out of that somewhat tragic setting this idea sprang forth about a young man who this is happening to. I just loved that, the fact that this idea sprang from so deep a root you know what I mean?

I think that definitely comes across that it came from somewhere like that. He’s a really complex character…

It’s funny isn’t it when you’re in a strange state of mind and you’re being challenged by adversity or tragedy or somethings going on in your life you can sort of go for a walk and all of a sudden become the most creative you can be… it’s an odd characteristic of us humans. Cyborgs. So that was interesting and yeah you’re right that kind of sang off the page and Jack was a very very strong character.

My favourite scenes were between you and Joely Richardson – very powerful.

Yeah – it was tough for Jack in those scenes because she’s so good at her job as a psychiatrist character that she sort of is hitting the nail on the head you know, she sort of has a conclusion and an answer for everything that he throws at her… She clearly has him down to some extent and he feels himself being reduced down to the typical addict or typical patient you know, so yeah that was very interesting. When Joely came in she came in near the end of the shoot for probably about a week we were all in a very tense place because of the nature of the story… She was sort of dropped into this tensity that was going on and it was lovely we did some really electric little scenes and now we are doing this thing on stage.

I’m doing it right now that’s why I’m wearing a frilly shirt and velvety pants and I can hear Joely’s lovely voice hollering over the tannoy which you probably can’t hear. We’re doing a project called The Wars of the Roses which has been directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. It’s a big old gigantic epic Shakespearean adaptation of the Henry VI plays and Richard III play and those four have been very cleverly focused and edited down into three – Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III, which was that period of the time “the wars of the roses” that those three men were seated on the throne. It’s about all the exploit of how they got there and how they were usurped and so on and so forth. It’s just a piece of theatre of such epic proportion.

It will be very interesting to see how it’s adapted into three plays.

Yeah, there’s so much in the first three Henry plays. Back in the early sixties John Barton and Peter Hall decided to focus those plays and essentially make it possible for them to come and see this entire period of time in one day so we’re doing three show days twice a week from the 3rd October.

Wow.

Yeah – which we haven’t tackled yet. We’re currently rehearsing the second play having performed the first one last night and the night before. So it’s sort of a strange rollercoaster of a project but it’s lovely because old Trev whose directing was stood at the back of the ROC for the three plays back in 1963 and he’s now reviving them on stage for the first time so it’s a real project of the heart.

They’re the best kind! So do you have a preference with stage or film? Or do you enjoy them both the same?

I think they’re very different beasts. With theatre I suppose we’ve had a long rehearsal period of nine weeks – I say long but that’s to cover three three hour Shakespearean plays. Some days you come out of the rehearsal space absolutely buzzed, adrenalised, positive mood thinking, “Yes, I fucking stormed it it’s gonna be awesome,” and then other days you come out with head hung absolutely depressed thinking you’re an utter charlatan – I’m genuinely not exaggerating there. I think emotionally it can be more unpredictable with theatre. But then it’s funny because the first play we performed (we’ve done two previews of Henry VI) I have very little to do in I play a camp frenchman who’s part of the French rebellion. We did it last night and the night before and obviously I was paying attention to what was going on but was so sort of relaxed about the fact that I was on stage it was a tense amount of laziness so that’s good – I’m not going to have an anxiety attack any time soon.

That’s a good place to be! But playing the character of Jack, was that quite emotionally challenging? What did you hope to bring to the character?

I wanted to bring an intensity and a tragedy to Jack but not an obvious one until the end of the film because the problem sometimes when you watch a film is that if there’s a tragic character or there’s an outsider then they’re too aware themselves of the fact that they’re outsiders. Jack when you first meet him, he’s for all intensive purposes fine. To him he’s absolutely spot on – that’s his life and that’s the way he lives and he’s become a pariah because of it. He drinks himself drunk and asleep every night, wakes up and carries on, he’s not particularly happy but he’s leading this weird superhero life, you know? In order to portray that you have to show someone who’s not miserable about that or surprised about that or mournful, he’s just living it. It’s only when things start to bubble over and he encounters a tragic event that’s very similar to an event he experienced when he was a kid that the mirror image of that starts to upset the tender balance that’s going on.

I wanted to bring that intensity but I wanted to bury it way down until it’s picked apart by Joely’s character and Mark, the ghostly character that Jack Fox plays, and by all these memories. Also I think what’s interesting to bring is an arc – to start somewhere and go somewhere completely different because often with a character it doesn’t feel like they go anywhere, they start somewhere and finish somewhere very similar. It’s not very interesting as an audience member to watch and actually to go off on a slight tangent that’s what’s lovely about Wars of the Roses, that you meet Richard III as a very young man with his brothers and his dad still alive and they all go off to war together and he’s kind of in awe of his dad and he’s part of his family very much and you sort of watch the transformation unfold. So that was the intention with Jack – starting him off in that very common-or-garden humorous place, not common-or-garden but that way he digests the very strange reality that he’s living with and going to that extremely intense place at the end.

That definitely came across and he was a really strong character because I think he sometimes you sympathised with him, sometimes you were frustrated with him but then you wanted to like him for what he was doing – so you kind of felt conflicted about him watching it. You feel so many emotions towards him!

Thanks that’s lovely lovely lovely to hear and I’m genuinely not just saying that it warms my heart to hear you say that – thank you very much.

Also, it was interesting how it was left sort of ambiguous whether Jack is actually seeing the dead or whether his psychiatrist is right. Was that something that interested you?

I’m definitely interested in leaving it ambiguous because I don’t believe either side have answers for what I suppose we commonly call mental disability. I mentioned this in an interview at the Edinburgh film festival that I had just finished reading John Ronson’s, A Journey Through the Madness Industry where the more he discovered about psychiatry and psychology the more he realised that throughout his age it’s been just a grope through the unknowable with no frame of reference you know it’s just doctors coming along with theories and an idea gaining popularity and force.

It’s good that the film does shed light on that.

Yeah – it says that psychiatry or established psychology these things don’t have all the answers so I think that was very much a byproduct of how the film ends.

Definitely. You’ve worked with David Blair before – do you enjoy projects with him is it a good working relationship?

I do I very much do I love ol’ Darth Blair. I emailed him the other day, I read an interview where I called him Darth Blair – out of love of course – and he said you should have called me my full name Darth Blaider. Yeah, he’s fantastic and he’s a real purist drama maker, he gets such incredible performances out of people. He’s such a warm, charismatic, incredibly intelligent man and he’s sort of working on a different plane when it comes to storytelling to a lot of film makers I’ve worked with. He’s a true unique drama maker. He’s a lovely man – I think i’m going to work with him again on a film which my friend has written. But because they’re about 90 percent funded, all that stuff’s not set in stone and also the title of this next thing is up in the air. So I suppose what I can say is I’m pretty sure I’m going to be working with him again and a friend of mine Connor MacNeill, who’s written the script which is amazing so yeah watch that space.

Great – I was going to ask you actually if there’s any more upcoming films or anything apart from the new play that you can tell us about?

There’s a film I’m going to do afterwards which is going to be lovely, it’s with this guy called Dustin Lance Black who is an American mostly known for screenwriting but is also a director. He wrote Milk with Sean Penn, he wrote J Edgar with Leonardo DiCaprio and is currently the creator of this mini series they’re doing on ABC called When We Rise about the civil rights movement and the black rights movement I believe in the sixties – it’s about key figures in that. He’s a very politicised man so he’s directing this film and of course has written the script – it’s called The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. It’s a really really lovely document of love about two young people who are both highly suspicious of love because they’ve seen it tear apart their families. The boy is a psychology major in Yale and the girls is 18/19 years of age and they share a flight back from New York to London and on the five or six hour flight they have this conversation about love and it’s sobering meeting of two people. I think it’s a lot more couched in reality than a lot of love stories which are built in films.

But that’s always refreshing isn’t it – something different.

Yeah it’s about two people who essentially become aware of the fact that they are starting to seal the first beginnings of attachment while talking about how much they both despise love – and that’s with Hailee Steinfeld.

In both the Messenger and The Road within you play very demanding lead roles, I was wondering if you have a dream/ideal role, or what roles you like to choose – ones that push you?

I don’t think I have a dream role. I think I sort of waft through the universe until something comes my way that I find intriguing, that’s really the only power or control you can have as an actor so you sort of take projects as they come on their merits. I certainly love when something challenging comes across the old desk and I think the interesting common ground between the Messenger and the Road Within is that the two characters are both lead characters who are utter outsiders for different reasons. That’s always the juiciest stuff when you get your teeth into a lead character who has all of the quirk or eccentricity of a supporting character you know someone who has a larger journey for that reason.

Well that was really great – thank you so much for speaking with me.

You’re very welcome – what are you going to watch tomorrow morning, The Exorcism?

Words: Alys Davies

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Anton Corbijn’s golden boy Dane DeHaan plays James Dean in biopic Life. Discussing his idol and his work to date, the one time Prada face bares all in our cover feature for our 10th birthday issue.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

Photographer: Matt Lambert

Fashion: Andrew Davis

Grooming: Servullo

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

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Growing up, Londoner Dua was influenced by her musician father’s broad and eclectic music taste which ranged from Tupac to Action Bronson, David Bowie and Bob Dylan to Alt J. At 15 she left home to live with friends and surrounded herself with the process of making music.

Now 19, Dua has just released her first video for her new track “New Love”. The song was produced by Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs), and Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow) which can be recognised in the hypnotic backing beats. Dua’s standout vocals are layered over the chilled backing which makes for a mesmerizing track. Below, Dua shares her playlist with Wonderland featuring  Asap Ferg and Anderson Paak.

“Work REMIX” – Asap Ferg ft. Asap Rocky, French Montana, Trinidad James & Schoolboy Q

When the song first came out you know you blasted it through your headphones on the tube making people take a second look at you.

“So High” – Doja Cat

The flow in this is so good! As much as I love pretty much all of the remixes to this song nothing beats the original.

“I Do It” – Big Sean

I went to a Big Sean gig as a friends +1 a couple years ago and I was obssessed with this song for such a long time after that, that now I know the whole rap off by heart.

“10 Bands” – Drake

Makes me feel like i’m riding through the 6 with my woes..

“Don’t Waste My Time” – Krept and Konan

Gets you gassed… standard.

“Genocide” – Dr Dre ft. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pill

Dre’s new album bangs. There’s a song for every playlist in this album.

“Drugs” – Anderson Paak

Anderson Paak is getting bigger and bigger by the day. I fell in love with this song when a producer in the studio played me the remix version by DK the Punisher and I had to find the original.

“A Tale of 2 Citiez” – J Cole

“Nice watch run it”. That drop gets me so excited I dont know how to put it into words.

“Shutdown” – Skepta

Glastonbury memories in a sweaty tent with the crew.

“King Kunta” – Kendrick Lamar

On repeat always. Repeat repeat repeat! Best song and the video to this is insane.

“New Love” – Dua Lipa

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